The popularity at all market centers of well-finished yearlings on the baby beef order and of finished 1,100-lb. to 1,300-lb. steers over the weighty and more aged bullocks was as pronounced as ever, and the price premiums earned by the former were unprecedented for this season of the year. Thick-fat 1,400-lb. to 1,500-lb. steers of high quality and closely approaching prime grade could not pass $9.25 at Chicago and contrasted oddly with the moderately fat, short-fed yearlings that brought about the same figure. Ripe steers in the 1,600-lb. to 1,760-lb. class that had been grain-fed a year or more, sold at Chicago and Omaha at $8.25 to $8.50 with a plainer, weighty kind that had consumed considerable corn, down to $7.50. Many sales of good and choice 1,200-lb. to 1,350-lb. steers between $8 and $8.75 were made at Chicago and elsewhere. A few loads of long yearlings averaging 1,100 lbs. to 1,175 lbs. sold as high as $10 and $10.50. A generous proportion of the run, however, all around the western market circuit consisted of branded and native grass steers of mediocre and medium killing quality that cashed at $5 to $6.50, comparatively few straight grass steers being good enough to bring $7. This was true despite the fact that two loads of Montanas reached $7.25 at Chicago. Light grass steers of common quality but carrying enough flesh to make cheap carcass beef, sold as low as $4.25 and $4.50 at St. Paul and Missouri River points and a few, chiefly on the Mexican order, ranged downward from $5 at Chicago. An increase of nearly 50% in receipts of northwestern grass cattle at Chicago was credited in part to the 20% cut in long-haul freight rates. The week’s total of about 13,000 cattle from that source, however, was but little more than half as large as similar receipts during the corresponding week last year. It seems probable, however, that the Northwest will ship more freely during October, as after this month stormy weather is likely to put an end to cattle roundups. Liberal receipts of low and medium grade steers and their cheapness “on the hooks” as compared with most grades of she stock had a depressing effect on cow and heifer prices at all markets covered by this report except Omaha. At the latter market light receipts forced cow prices up along with those of most other classes of cattle. Canners and choice dry-fed heifer yearlings withstood the downward tendency and held about steady. SHE-STOCK PRICES BREAK.